# Mallice Huse — New Hampshire character guide

> Mallice Huse in New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Huse

**First appearance:** 0011-two-witches

## Snapshot

A named New Hampshire figure whose presence in the narrative poems adds another thread to the state's dense weave of local lives.

## Who they are

Mallice Huse appears among the named inhabitants who give the New Hampshire poems their sense of a place thick with specific, uncelebrated people. Like the townships named but without population, such figures are part of what the narrator means by specimens — one each of everything. Their accumulated particularity is the poem's answer to Emerson's taunt about lofty land and little men.

## In the story

### [The Axe-Helve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/the-axe-helve)

Mrs. Baptiste is present in the kitchen, rocking in a chair with many motions, and appears to understand the conversation despite limited English.

### [Two Witches](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/two-witches)

An old man whom the Pauper Witch allegedly rode, leading to accusations of witchcraft.

### [II: The Pauper Witch of Grafton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/ii-the-pauper-witch-of-grafton)

An old man whom the narrator allegedly rode and wore to skin and bones, leading to controversy over gnawed posts.

## Links

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